Uber Agrees to Settle U.S. Lawsuit Filed by India Rape Victim
The Indian woman had previously settled a civil U. S. lawsuit against Uber in 2015, but sued the company again in a San Francisco federal court saying
that shortly after the incident, a U. S. Uber executive "met with Delhi police and intentionally obtained plaintiff’s confidential medical records."
UL] and a woman who accused top executives of improperly obtaining her medical records after a company driver raped her in India
have agreed to settle a civil lawsuit the woman filed against Uber in June, according to a U. S. federal court filing on Friday.
" the lawsuit said that Uber executives duplicitously and publicly decried the rape, expressing sympathy for plaintiff, and shock and regret at the violent attack, while privately speculating, as outlandish as it is,
that she had colluded with a rival company to harm Uber’s business,
The settlement comes as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the top job in August, is seeking to put several scandals behind the
company following eight years of CEO Travis Kalanick’s pugnacious leadership, which led to rule-breaking around the world.
The lawsuit cited several media reports that said Kalanick and others doubted the victim’s account of her ordeal.
The woman was living in the United States when she filed the lawsuit.
Uber kept a copy of those records, the lawsuit said.